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Job summary

Main area
Trauma informed
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract
Fixed term: 6 months
Hours
  • Part time
  • Job share
37.5 hours per week (1.0 full-time equivalent job share between two people. Hours will be discussed during the application process and agreed individually.)
Job ref
325-6132425-CORP
Employer
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
18 Mole Business Park
Town
Leatherhead
Salary
£26,405 - £28,976 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/07/2024 23:59

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Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust logo

Trauma-Informed Lived Experience Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 4

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust  to work for.  This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

Job overview

The Trauma-Informed Lived Experience Practitioner will use their lived experience of trauma and of using services to primarily support the delivery of trauma-informed training to staff, and / or to students of the SABP Recovery College. Staff will be from a range of disciplines across Surrey and North-East Hampshire. They will also be contributing their lived experience insights to trauma-informed projects, and to the development and evaluation of the service.

Main duties of the job

The Trauma-Informed Lived Experience Practitioner will:

  • Co-develop and co-deliver training to staff, people with mental health difficulties and carers. Training will relate to areas such as trauma, trauma-informed approaches, mental health difficulties, interventions for trauma and skills development. This is not exhaustive, and the content will depend on the needs of the services involved.
  • Adapt development and delivery of training for the audience and setting, recognising that attendees will be adults of all ages and backgrounds, and as such the training must be sensitive to a range of needs.
  • Support the development of knowledge and skills during training through sharing the wisdom of their own lived experience. Inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible.
  • Contribute to training and wider service administration, for example: helping to organise the training, collating registers of attendees and collating attendee feedback.
  • Contribute to training and wider service evaluation, supporting the use of relevant and appropriate outcome measures.
  • Under guidance, conduct literature reviews and contribute to the write-up and dissemination of service evaluation and audit.
  • Contribute using their lived experience insights to trauma-informed projects the service are involved with, and to service development.
  • Work closely with the Lived Experience Lead and other relevant staff as required.
  • Attend pre- and post-training support meetings, and regular supervision.

Working for our organisation

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Eligibility to high cost area supplement is conditional upon candidates residence and will be discussed on offer. 

We look forward to receiving your application!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification for the detailed job description and main responsibilities.

Person specification

Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of mental health issues (including trauma and issues arising from experiencing trauma) and recovery
  • Knowledge or commitment to obtain knowledge regarding trauma-informed approaches
  • Experience of any voluntary or paid employment
  • An interest in working with staff, people with mental and physical health difficulties and carers
  • Lived experience of trauma, or of caring for someone who has
  • Lived experience of accessing relevant services or caring for someone who has
  • Willingness to positively share your own experiences of trauma and recovery with others
  • Ability to guide others in taking charge of their own recovery, and/or assisting the recovery of others they care for at work
Desirable criteria
  • Completed an accredited peer support worker course
  • Completed an accredited facilitation or coaching course
  • Attended a Recovery College course and / or trauma-informed training
  • Paid or unpaid peer support worker/training/teaching experience
  • Experience of supporting, teaching or coaching others
  • Understand services (such as mental health, physical health, social care, education)

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Understanding of peer support
  • Evidence of good interpersonal and communication skills
  • Ability to demonstrate empathy, compassion, patience, appreciate / understand other people’s worlds and be non-judgmental
  • Ability to problem solve and help people find solutions to their problems
  • Good organisational skills
  • Effective team player
  • Acceptable level of written literacy and numeracy
  • Basic IT skills i.e. Microsoft Word, Outlook and Teams
  • Sensitive understanding of diversity issues and an ability to promote anti-discriminatory practice/ equal opportunities.
  • Ability to sit in a constricted position and maintain intense concentration during tasks at the computer.
  • Ability to drive or be able to use public transport in order to access Leatherhead HQ / community locations.
  • Ability to move furniture and equipment of varying weight in line with manual handling regulations.
  • Ability to assess and manage risk occasionally and to sustain concentration in unpredictable situations.
  • Able to translate complex concepts into an understandable framework for attendees.
  • An ability to act calmly and to respond in a professional manner to distress, disturbance, unpredictability and emergency situations
  • Ability to manage occasional exposure to highly distressing and emotive situations and disclosures, including disclosures of child abuse, suicidal intent and actual suicide
  • Ability to reflect on personal emotions that may impact on the work in supervision.
  • Able to manage boundaries within professional relationships
  • Able to recognise limitations and ask for help.
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of how to build community links and networks

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Nicola Rushent
Job title
LEx Lead Trauma-Informed Surrey & NE Hants
Email address
[email protected]
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